Firefox-1.0.4 and Java

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 21:46 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:15 -0400, Asa Canaway wrote:
> > Okay, this seems odd, and I may be doing something wrong.  I downloaded
> > Java jre-1.0.5_02, and installed it, then linked (ln -s) to the
> > javaplugin_oji.so (/usr/java/jre-1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29) in
> > Firefox plugins (/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins), and then Firefox won't
> > start.  I remove the link, and Firefox starts!  I've done this many
> > times before.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug with Firefox
> > (it works on my FC3 box), FC4T3 or even Java?
> > 

<snip...>

> Java works for me in rawhide.
> I use the jpackage.org nosrc.rpm to create java rpm's of Sun's j2sdk
> 1.5.0
> Install them - and it just works. On x86 anyway.

The standard Java RPMs from Sun actually work just fine. Instead of
linking the version you are, link the libjavaplugin_oji.so
in /usr/java/jre-1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/
to /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins instead.

Sun changed the structure so that the ns7-gcc29 folder is for gcc 2.9 an
older and the regular ns7 folder contains the newer gcc versions.

Cheers,

Chris


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